“I’ve had a 15lb-plus barbel and a float-caught 8lb-plus chub on my bucket list for years” “In the last two weeks of the river season I’ve managed to achieve both! The 8lb-plus chub, (which went 8lb 1oz) came on the last day of the river season from the Dorset Stour…. Read more

“I spent five nights leading up to the end of the closed season fishing my favourite stretch of the River Thames” “on the first four all I’d caught was a 1lb chub. It was now the evening of the final day of the river season and I finished worked at… Read more

“I never thought I’d see a chub of that size in my life..” “I decided to target the Trent’s chub this winter hoping to beat my previous PB of 7lb 0oz, which I was lucky enough to have caught last winter. January and early February proved to be a very… Read more

“Bang !!!! The tip wrapped round and the line starting stripping off the reel” “My names Ian Harvey. I’m from Stevenage. I caught a 7lb 15oz chub from the day ticket section of King Weir Fishery on the River Lea in Hertfordshire on Sunday 2nd February. This is the biggest… Read more

“I’ve fished the upper Lea a few times trying to catch whatever I could find but that was my first session intending solely to try and catch a donkey-sized chub!” “I finished work early(2pm) last Friday to beat the traffic for my 90 minute pilgrimage to the lower Lea. It was… Read more

“It’s one of the biggest chub caught from King’s Weir this season.” “I ventured over to the Kings Weir fishery on the River Lea at 11am and planned to fish for the big bream that live there all the way up until the afternoon. I managed two slabs of 7lb… Read more